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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1978-09-07, Page 3THE HURON E X BER 7,1 1070 „ . Vandals burned .two out- door portable toilets on the site of the Huron County PloWing Match late Saturday night. The two Johnny-on-the= spots, valued at $1,000, were on the Ken Campbell farm, RR 1, Dublin, where the plowing match was held on. Friday afternoon and Sati.fr- day. Constable Claus of the Goderich O.P.P. detachment v • THE MAPMAKER — Bob Maniago, the urban design and planning student who has been working in Seaforth for the last few months drawing up maps for the town council, shows off some of his handiwork. (Expositor Photo) —PERCENTAGE— SEPT M SEEN FROM ABOVE — There was lots of activity at the annual Vincent Farm Equipment Ltd. demonstration at the Orville Storey farm last week. (Photo by David McLean) ••• • er, • Spectators at the Huron County Plowing Match '.•..-Yotere. limited • Johnny -on-the-spots burned Somethingto say by Susan White $200 damage in accident •(Continued from Page 1 ) discovered was on High Street where a funeral home (commercial zoning) is next to a family residence (residential) which is adjacent to J-luron Fabricators (industrial). These buildings were all built long before the town had an, official plan and a pOlicy of trying tOlceeplike land uses together. • Also, on Birch Street, there is a mixture of commercial and, light industrial businesses, but the overall zoning for the street is light industrial. , , One of the other interesting maps prepared by the planning student was one listing all the pieces of property owned by Out of town people. Mr. Maniago emphasized that out-of-town may mean Mitchell, Dublin, EgmOndville or other nearby municipalities. He said for example KenrSmith Pools on Birch Street is listed as a business owned by an out-of-town landlord, although 4r. Smith lives in Egmondville. The landlord who holds the largest chunk BUILDING PERMIT CHART — INS Die diagram, prepared by Bob Maniago,. shows that 47 per - cent of 'the building permits granted,in Seaforth are for alterations to existing buildings, 20 per cant are r additienS, 20 per cent for new dwellings, 10 per cent for Miscellaneous building not covered in the previous category, and three per cent for the dernolition of buildings. Mr. Maniago Speculates that More people today are repairing herneS rather than purchasing new berries or building berries. (Expositor Photo) - Seaforth maps completed On Sunday morning,' there was' an accident causing minor damages on Goderich Street East. A car, d riven by Edward Becker, of 261 Albert Street, Clinton was in collision with a trailer being towed behind a car driven by A Summer is over and the Chamber of Commerce summer '78 concerts have finished. The executive would like some expression of opinion as• to what the wishes are for 1979 of the various organization ie service clubs; Recreation. CoMmittee and town council as well as interested citizens. The various performing groups who take part in the program series have to be engaged often one or two years in advance in order to, obtain a date for appearatice. This is There's no word yet from all those balloons the tennis club sent up from Mitchell last week. The taii sighting saw them heading south and a bit to the west. Up, up and away. And out of sight. Way out. Far Out. Would anyone ever see them again? d someone by chance--by pure luck-- find a dead balloon in his backyard? Would he pick that balloon up--all shriveled and exhausted from the winds and rain of air travel? Would another human being ever touch the balloon with the name of the club written on it? Or did all those balloons die in space? Popped by air pressure or collapsed by the seeping helium gas. Or lost at sea on Lake Ontario, Or snagged on a tree limb a few blocks away. The big question is: Do any of those balloons still live? Did any get into the hand of someone else? Of course, that's the great fun in sending out a message like that. Aiming your name at empty space or a wide ocean and wondering if there's someone out there to pick it up. It's chancy, of course. The odds can be no better than the lottery. Yet people do win. People do find names out of the airBottles corked and.thrown into the sea do wash up on shores and reveal a'name hidden inside. Last spring when the children of a local school released balloons, the word did get back. They learned their balloons traveled as far away as New York State. The finders sent them that message. There must be something about us that wants to send out our names to a' void. Maybe it's That innate hope that outside of oftrselves—Way deep in space--there is somecine out there. Someone who will pick up our messages, even though we send them without an address, without any in-care-ofs. We shoot wide and against every odd possible, we hope to hit the bull's eye target. Carl Rogers, the well known psychologist and counselor, says we all tap out messages from the dungeons of Outtelves, froth the ptisob we build around ourselves. We tap, • Michael Rondeau of Brantford. • The Becker car was pulling out of the intersection on East William Street when it was in collision with the .Rondeau trailer. There was $200 damage to the Rondeau trailer hitch in. the accident, a resume of those who took part In the 108 programs Dutch Choir, S.D. Band, London. 74 Police Highlan pers, Old Tyrne Bands, Stratford, Legio, Bands from Mitchell and Stratford, Clinton Pipe Band and Variety Concerts. ..„ Please forward your ideas by letter Ken Oldacre Sec.-Treas. C of C Box 579 Or phone "527-0195. C.E. Toll Chairman/78 Summer Concerts Committee tap, tap--even in the faintest of sounds--in order to communicate our selves to others. To let people know we're around--to let them know we hurt. We need some attention. We send out our soundings and hope someone will pick up our messages. But maybe we send out our messages from pure curiosity. From sheer boredom. I heard a good one about Joe French from Mitchell. Maybe he was plain bored while he helped his wife candle eggs on their farm some thirty years ago. Joe's retired now and lives in town. And for all you non-chicken people, candling eggs means you hold up each egg to a bright light—or a candle in years back--and see if it's fresh and fertile. Joe started to wondi. What . would ,happen if he put his natut ,and address on a few of those eggs? What would happen if lie pencilled on J.E. French. RIZ Mitchell. Ontario? Something did happen. Months later, a woman wrote from Scotland. She said she didn't know if this was aJoke, but that day in her kitchen in Scotland she'd tracked an egg with the French 'name on the shell. She couldn't believe it. Was it possible her breakfast was coming,all the way from Canada? ' Joe and his family wrote back and assured her the name and place were for real. Joe French says this couldn't happen today anymore. • Export eggs are dried now. But from that fragile egg shell 'those many years ago, the Frenchs started a correspondence. It lasted for years. And a few years ago, when Joe and his wife traveled to Scotland, they visited the woman who found their eggs in her basket. They stayed several days in her home and they saw mote of Scotland than the travel brochure promised. The three of them could only marvel at What a name sent out in space could do. So go ahead) Send out your name to the blue. Someone ntay- well answer. Someone is listening. The Seaforth ,Chamber of Commerce will be holding a general members' meeting on the first Tuesday in October. All members, are invited to attend. • Seaforth Womens Institute will meet on Tuesday September 12th at the home of Mrs. Gordon Papple at 8 p.m. The regular meeting of the Hospital Auxilary will be held in the board room of the hospital on Tuesday Sept. 12 at 6;30 p.m. with a pot luck supper preceeding the meeting. . • - Members please bring a non-perishable item worth $1.50. Everyone welcome. 'Regular meeting of the Horticultural Society .wil be held in Masonic. Hall Wednesday September -13th •8 o'clock. Mrs. Durst will demonstrate arrangements of flowers. Suspect arreste (Continued froin Page, 1) Seaforth police nave no suspects in the incident. A hit and run incident was also reported at the Genesco Shoe Factory in Seaforth. • On Monday, an employee discovered part of•the building had been damaged over the weekend. The headlight glass and part of a vehicle' were discovered beside the factory,. Seaforth Police.have a suspect 'in the case, and 'are contuing their investigation of the incident. Susan White is on vacation. investigated the incident but there are no suspects. A fire 'alarm turned in to the Seaforth fire department on Saturday morning at 4 a.m. was a false alarm. To the editor: Want opinions C of C summer concerts Amen by Karl Schuessler No balloon reports of property without residing in Seaforth is naturally the Canadian National Railway., (C.N,R.) Mr. Maniago did find a number of people frOM Michigan and 'Toronto own land in the town and he could only speculate that they ohad inherited the land from parents or perhaps planned to' retire in the town. • - Now that Mr. Maniago's work term in • "Seaforth is' finished, he 'will return to Fanshawe College to continue his studies. Co-op Program The urban design and planning course is, a co-operative. program, which means stu- dents take three years of academic work and have one year of practical experience while taking• the program. The maps he prepared will prove an invaluable' aid next year when the town's official plan and zoning bylaws come up for review. The clerk's office also feels that the maps will enable them to easily answer some of the questions that ratepayers ask. —FLOW CHART- 10 YEAR SPAN BUILDING -PERMITS -- This flow chart, compiled by Bob Maniago, details the number of building permits issued in the town of Seaforth in the last decade. The peak year for permits was 1976 when 79 permits were issued. There have been 65 permits issued this year to date. (Expositor Photo)